On 3/18/2024 10:24 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Star Citizen, developed by Chris "I made Wing Commander!" Roberts -
was supposed to be the next big space-simulator game. It was going to
be Elite, and Wing Commander, and X-Wing, and Freelancer and Halo all
rolled up into a massive game with graphics so realistic they'd melt
your CPU if you turned the visual settings up to max. Development
started in 2010; a kickstarter campaign for the game was started in
2012, with a promised release date in 2014. It easily earned its $2
million ask, as dedicated space-sim fans rushed to help finance the
game.

12 years later (14 years if you're counting when development started),
the game still hasn't released. It hasn't even exited alpha state.
There have been early-access releases, but they only include a tiny
amount of the promised content (a single solar system in what was
promised to be a galaxy-ranging game) and even basic mechanics haven't
been nailed down yet. A recent press release mentioned the possibility
of a 'version 1.0' but no fixed date - or even road-map - has been
offered. In fact, Cloud Imperium - Chris Robert's development company
- has infamously taken down existing developmental roadmaps.

And yet, somehow, the company has burned through $669 million dollars
to get to this point. Where is the money going?

DAFUQ!!!

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On 3/19/2024 4:32 AM, kyonshi wrote:

On 3/19/2024 1:15 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 3/18/2024 10:24 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Star Citizen, developed by Chris "I made Wing Commander!" Roberts -
was supposed to be the next big space-simulator game. It was going to
be Elite, and Wing Commander, and X-Wing, and Freelancer and Halo all
rolled up into a massive game with graphics so realistic they'd melt
your CPU if you turned the visual settings up to max. Development
started in 2010; a kickstarter campaign for the game was started in
2012, with a promised release date in 2014. It easily earned its $2
million ask, as dedicated space-sim fans rushed to help finance the
game.

12 years later (14 years if you're counting when development started),
the game still hasn't released. It hasn't even exited alpha state.
There have been early-access releases, but they only include a tiny
amount of the promised content (a single solar system in what was
promised to be a galaxy-ranging game) and even basic mechanics haven't
been nailed down yet. A recent press release mentioned the possibility
of a 'version 1.0' but no fixed date - or even road-map - has been
offered. In fact, Cloud Imperium - Chris Robert's development company
- has infamously taken down existing developmental roadmaps.

And yet, somehow, the company has burned through $669 million dollars
to get to this point. Where is the money going?

DAFUQ!!!

There are countries that spend less money than they do developing a
video game.

oh it will be done once chris roberts sells the company to some big
publisher like Sony or SEGA and they finally force him to release it as is

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On 3/18/2024 10:24 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Whether this whole thing is just some endless scam to keep Roberts and
his employees endlessly (and profitably) employed without actually,
you know, providing a finished product is arguable.

Preselling cosmetics tells me it is a scam. Like many others it
probably didn't start that way. They might have at one time worked on
the game but at 14 years it was long ago time to sue the hell out of
them to return whatever funds they had left and possibly put them in
jail for fraud.

Assuming they don't ever release it, it's already more than an order of magnitude beyond the biggest crowdfunding failures & scams of all time.
The largest I could find was in the $15 million range. Do you remember Theranos? It wasn't crowdfunded, but it's the biggest and most infamous
funded startup, and that wasn't much more.

They must be trying to outdo Duke Nukem Forever and take their title for "Longest Development Time" Which coincidentally was also 14 years and
was a huge flop.

It's something I'd be interested in if it ever came out, but I'm not
touching it with a 10 foot pole until long enough to tell if it's the
disaster I expect (and with preselling cosmetics I'm 99.99% sure it will be)

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